Tennessee National Guard units will mobilize in Memphis on Friday as President Donald Trump's administration turns to states' citizen-soldiers as an anti-crime measure in some of the nation's biggest cities. The National Guard is deployed in three American states and the District of Columbia, while the federal government fights in court for deployments in Illinois and Oregon -- where the states' governors have protested the orders -- to be upheld as legal. On Thursday, a judge in Chicago temporarily blocked the deployment of troops in Illinois. The Tennessee Guard's mission in Memphis, however, was authorized by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, who retains control over the Guard under Title 32. The 150 Guardsmen will join a task force that includes 13 federal agencies, as well as state agencie

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